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Bob commented on KAFKA-799:
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Thanks for the info, this would be useful information in the 0.8 quickstart :)
Since I am new to both Kafka and Zookeeper, I thought everything is
self-contained within the kafka folder. I renamed /tmp/zookeeper/ folder on my
first laptop and was able to get quickstart working without my changes.
A suggestion though, I agree that this exception shouldn't be hidden, however,
is there a way to do this without causing the infinite loop? It kept re-trying
to elect the same failed broker over and over again. Thoughts?
> Infinite loop trying to start a broker
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-799
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-799
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: controller
> Affects Versions: 0.8
> Environment: Mac OS X 10.7.5
> Reporter: Bob
> Assignee: Swapnil Ghike
> Priority: Blocker
> Labels: patch
>
> I followed the quickstart instructions
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+0.8+Quick+Start
> It caused an infinite loop while trying to start a broker.
> [2013-03-08 16:55:19,287] ERROR Error while electing or becoming leader on
> broker 1 (kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector)
> kafka.common.KafkaException: Can't parse json string: null
> at kafka.utils.Json$.liftedTree1$1(Json.scala:20)
> at kafka.utils.Json$.parseFull(Json.scala:16)
> at
> kafka.utils.ZkUtils$$anonfun$getReplicaAssignmentForTopics$1.apply(ZkUtils.scala:484)
> at
> kafka.utils.ZkUtils$$anonfun$getReplicaAssignmentForTopics$1.apply(ZkUtils.scala:480)
> at
> scala.collection.LinearSeqOptimized$class.foreach(LinearSeqOptimized.scala:61)
> at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:45)
> at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.getReplicaAssignmentForTopics(ZkUtils.scala:480)
> at
> kafka.controller.KafkaController.initializeControllerContext(KafkaController.scala:451)
> at
> kafka.controller.KafkaController.onControllerFailover(KafkaController.scala:225)
> at
> kafka.controller.KafkaController$$anonfun$1.apply$mcV$sp(KafkaController.scala:87)
> at kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector.elect(ZookeeperLeaderElector.scala:53)
> at
> kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector$LeaderChangeListener.handleDataDeleted(ZookeeperLeaderElector.scala:106)
> at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$6.run(ZkClient.java:549)
> at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread.run(ZkEventThread.java:71)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> scala.util.parsing.combinator.lexical.Scanners$Scanner.<init>(Scanners.scala:52)
> at scala.util.parsing.json.JSON$.parseRaw(JSON.scala:71)
> at scala.util.parsing.json.JSON$.parseFull(JSON.scala:85)
> at kafka.utils.Json$.liftedTree1$1(Json.scala:17)
> ... 13 more
> I tracked the issue to unhandled Java null string in these 2 methods in
> ZkUtils: getReplicaAssignmentForTopics, getPartitionAssignmentForTopics.
> I am submitting a patch with the fixes. Now quickstart works fine for me.
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